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<lb/> we may a&longs;&longs;ure our &longs;elves, I &longs;ay, that bodies &longs;hining with mo&longs;t| live­
<lb/> ly light do irradiate, or beam forth rayes more by far than tho&longs;e
<lb/> that are of a more langui&longs;hing light. </s><s>I have many times &longs;een <emph type="italics"/>Ju­
<lb/> piter<emph.end type="italics"/> and <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> together twenty or thirty degrees di&longs;tant from the
<lb/> Sun, and the air being very dark, <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> appeared eight or ten
<lb/> times bigger than <emph type="italics"/>Jupiter,<emph.end type="italics"/> being both beheld by the eye at liber­
<lb/> ty; but being beheld afterwards with the Tele&longs;cope, the <emph type="italics"/>Di&longs;cus<emph.end type="italics"/>
<lb/> of <emph type="italics"/>Jupiter<emph.end type="italics"/> di&longs;covered it &longs;elf to be four or more times greater than
<lb/> that of <emph type="italics"/>Venus,<emph.end type="italics"/> but the vivacity of the &longs;plendour of <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> was in­
<lb/> comparably bigger than the langui&longs;hing light of <emph type="italics"/>Jupiter<emph.end type="italics"/>; which
<lb/> was only becau&longs;e of <emph type="italics"/>Jupiters<emph.end type="italics"/> being far from the Sun, and from us;
<lb/> and <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> neer to us, and to the Sun. </s><s>The&longs;e things premi&longs;ed, it
<lb/> will not be difficult to comprehend, how Mars, when it is in oppo­
<lb/> &longs;ition to the Sun, and therefore neerer to the Earth by &longs;even times,
<lb/> and more, than it is towards the conjunction, cometh to appear
<lb/> &longs;carce four or five times bigger in that &longs;tate than in this, when as it
<lb/> &longs;hould appear more than fifty times &longs;o much; of which the only
<lb/> irradiation is the cau&longs;e; for if we dive&longs;t it of the adventitious
<lb/> rayes, we &longs;hall find it exactly augmented with the due proportion:
<lb/> but to take away the capillitious border, the Tele&longs;cope is the be&longs;t
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<lb/> and only means, which inlarging its <emph type="italics"/>Di&longs;cus<emph.end type="italics"/> nine hundred or a
<lb/> thou&longs;and times, makes it to be &longs;een naked and terminate, as that
<lb/> of the Moon, and different from it &longs;elf in the two po&longs;itions, ac­
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<lb/> cording to its due proportions to an hair. </s><s>Again, as to <emph type="italics"/>Venus,<emph.end type="italics"/>
<lb/> that in its ve&longs;pertine conjunction, when it is below the Sun, ought
<lb/> to &longs;hew almo&longs;t fourty times bigger than in the other matutine con­
<lb/> junction, and yet doth not appear &longs;o much as doubled; it happen­
<lb/> eth, be&longs;ides the effect of the irradiation, that it is horned; and its
<lb/> cre&longs;cents, be&longs;ides that they are &longs;harp, they do receive the Suns light
<lb/> obliquely, and therefore emit but a faint &longs;plendour; &longs;o that as
<lb/> being little and weak, its irradiation becometh the le&longs;&longs;e ample
<lb/> and vivacious, than when it appeareth to us with its Hemi&longs;phere all
<lb/> &longs;hining: but now the Tele&longs;cope manife&longs;tly &longs;hews its hornes to
<lb/> have been as terminate and di&longs;tinct as tho&longs;e of the Moon, and
<lb/> appear, as it were, with a great circle, and in a proportion tho&longs;e
<lb/> well neer fourty times greater than its &longs;ame <emph type="italics"/>Di&longs;cus,<emph.end type="italics"/> at &longs;uch time
<lb/> as it is &longs;uperiour to the Sun in its ultimate matutine apparition.</s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg556"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>An ea&longs;ie expe­
<lb/> riment that &longs;hew­
<lb/> eth the increa&longs;e in
<lb/> the &longs;tars, by means
<lb/> of the adventitious
<lb/> rays.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg559"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>It is &longs;een by ma­
<lb/> nife&longs;t experience,
<lb/> that the more
<lb/> &longs;plendid bodies do
<lb/> much more irradi­
<lb/> ate than the le&longs;&longs;e
<lb/> lucid.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg560"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>The<emph.end type="italics"/> Tele&longs;cope
<lb/> <emph type="italics"/>is the be&longs;t means to
<lb/> take away the ir­
<lb/> radiations of the
<lb/> Stars.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg561"></margin.target><emph type="italics"/>Another &longs;econd
<lb/> rea&longs;on of the &longs;mall
<lb/> apparent increa&longs;e
<lb/> of<emph.end type="italics"/> Venus.</s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SAGR. Oh, <emph type="italics"/>Nicholas Copernicus,<emph.end type="italics"/> how great would have been
<lb/> thy joy to have &longs;een this part of thy Sy&longs;teme, confirmed with &longs;o
<lb/> manife&longs;t experiments!
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<p type="margin"><s><margin.target id="marg562"></margin.target>Copernicus <emph type="italics"/>per­
<lb/> &longs;waded by rea&longs;ons
<lb/> contrary to &longs;en&longs;ible
<lb/> experiments.<emph.end type="italics"/></s></p>
<p type="main"><s>SALV. </s><s>Tis true. </s><s>But how much le&longs;&longs;e the fame of his &longs;ublime
<lb/> wit among&longs;t the intelligent? </s><s>when as it is &longs;een, as I al&longs;o &longs;aid before,
<lb/> that he did con&longs;tantly continue to affirm (being per&longs;waded thereto
<lb/> by rea&longs;on) that which &longs;en&longs;ible experiments &longs;eemed to contradict;
<lb/> for I cannot cea&longs;e to wonder that he &longs;hould con&longs;tantly per&longs;i&longs;t in
<lb/> &longs;aying, that <emph type="italics"/>Venus<emph.end type="italics"/> revolveth about the Sun, and is more than &longs;ix
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